Famous Quotes: Society

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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Society is at odds with itself.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
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The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
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I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.
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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
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